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Elon solves chess (media.piefed.world)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) by negativenull@piefed.world to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
 

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Transcript:
Elon: The actual number of moves that are not utterly stupid in chess is tiny and chess will be fully solved one day

Chess.com: Skill issue

Elon: Chess is hard for humans, but not for computers. One day, it will be fully solved like checkers. Between now and then, or even after, have fun. People enjoy may games/sports where machines are vastly better.

Chess.com: There are more possible chess games, by about 40 order of magnitude, than atoms in the observable universe. To solve chess, you'd have to map them all. Good luck.

Elon: Wrong, all legal chess positions are ~40 ooms less than the estimated atoms in the Universe. And ASI will figure out ways to solve and compress that are far beyond what we could possibly comprehend. (Here I am arguing with some random intern at a chess website)

Chess.com: I'm a full-time employee

Elon: (something-emoji)

Chess.com: Even my friends don't text me back that fast

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[–] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I enjoy see sport competitions because I like to see what humans are capable of. I don't need a so-called genius to prove that we can create robots running faster than humans. Likewise I don't need to be told that Stockfish is stronger than Carlsen because then what? We should stop playing because a machine is better?

Also, what does "solving chess mean"? We already have algorithms trying every possible move

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

Modern chess players are much stronger than last century precisely because they train against stockfish and use it to analyse the optimal move.

[–] AmyAye@nord.pub 3 points 23 hours ago

No no see, we can "solve chess" and find the one path that will always win no matter what.

Then we can stop plahing, duh.

/s